Two Deputies Suspended

Two deputies at the Pompano Detention Center were suspended without pay on Thursday for stealing $162 worth of meat from the jail kitchen, the Broward Sheriff`s Office said.

The suspensions of Deputies Ronald Thurston and Rickey Mingo will continue indefinitely pending completion of an investigation by the Broward State Attorney`s Office, sheriff`s spokesman Jim Leljedal said.

Sheriff`s Office internal affairs investigators found that Thurston, 28, with the help of Mingo, 27, took sausages, ham and roast beef from the kitchen on Nov. 9 and sold it to Thurston`s acquaintances for $90, Leljedal said.